Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Planet Project Part 2

Part two of our adventure is assembling the project once all the painted papers are dry. For our preschoolers, we will have to cut out the circles for them and the planet part. But older children can do this on their own.

Step one is to cut out the black paper. I suggest cutting two. Then one can be used for your project and the other as a template for all the others. Save the cut outs to be used for planets.

Take your planet cut outs and place them over areas of the paper to figure out how much to cut for the planet you are working on. You want to cut them much bigger so when you are placing your black paper over the top, it will create your planet.

On a sheet of white paper (mine is green because I used all my white playing with the paint!) and trace the planet locations on it. The painted planet paper cut outs need to cover the lines. Glue them in place. Use my example of color combinations to help create yours.

The final step is to glue the black sheet over the planets. I cut a ring out of more painted paper to finish off saturn. I thought it would look better. Our kids can't spell yet so we may have stickers with the planets names. They can then label each planet with a sticker. Older kids may write it themselves with white colored pencil.

Welcome

This blog was created to upload project ideas for kids. I work at a preschool and have had the honor of creating art projects to compliment the theme of the week as dictated by the teacher. Some people have asked for the patterns and pictures so they can use it for their kids and classes. I have also been a girl scout leader and had fun teaching the girls a thing or two. I will probably intersperse it with other projects I have done with my kids. So I hope you enjoy and feel free to use my ideas but please give me credit! Thanks

About Me

I am a wife and a mother of two kids who keep me very busy. I work part time at a park district preschool. In my very limited free time, I work on art incorporating fabric, paints and whatever else I can find.